Stephen Lucek is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroductionStephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John KirkPart I – Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing constructionKevin McCafferty2. "You are some foreigner – you are not even from this country": Comparative Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Diasporas in an Irish ContextCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma & Karen P. Corrigan3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of EnglishMarkku Filppula4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrEGili DiamantPart II – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and British EnglishAnne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England Anne Barron7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish EnglishMartin Schweinberger8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland Joan O'Sullivan9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin EnglishMarion Schulte10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectnessFergus O'DwyerPart III – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship between linguistic and political boundaries on the island of IrelandVicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in IrelandDeirdre Dunlevy13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fontsPatricia Ronan14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spaces IrelandRaymond Hickey15. Irish English and World EnglishesJohn Kirk

Stephen Lucek is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroductionStephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John KirkPart I – Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing constructionKevin McCafferty2. "You are some foreigner – you are not even from this country": Comparative Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Diasporas in an Irish ContextCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma & Karen P. Corrigan3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of EnglishMarkku Filppula4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrEGili DiamantPart II – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and British EnglishAnne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England Anne Barron7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish EnglishMartin Schweinberger8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland Joan O'Sullivan9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin EnglishMarion Schulte10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectnessFergus O'DwyerPart III – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship between linguistic and political boundaries on the island of IrelandVicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in IrelandDeirdre Dunlevy13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fontsPatricia Ronan14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spaces IrelandRaymond Hickey15. Irish English and World EnglishesJohn Kirk

Stephen Lucek is Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland.Carolina P. Amador-Moreno is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergen, Norway.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesIntroductionStephen Lucek, Carolina P. Amador-Moreno, John KirkPart I – Irish English: Structures and Cross-Varietal Perspectives1. Conservative and innovator?: J.M. Synge and the Irish English Be after V-ing constructionKevin McCafferty2. "You are some foreigner – you are not even from this country": Comparative Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Diasporas in an Irish ContextCarolina P. Amador-Moreno, Nancy E. Ávila-Ledesma & Karen P. Corrigan3. The variable fortunes of the Were-subjunctive in varieties of EnglishMarkku Filppula4. I Had the Dinner Eaten, But She Has a Tooth Gone: Causer and experiencer HAVE constructions in Traditional IrEGili DiamantPart II – Irish English: Discourse and Pragmatics5. "Bloody Hell, I'm Grand": Adjectives in spoken Irish and British EnglishAnne O'Keefe & Geraldine Mark6. "Sorry Miss, I completely forgot about it": Apologies and vocatives in Ireland and England Anne Barron7. Absolutely fantastic and really, really good: Language Variation and Change in Irish EnglishMartin Schweinberger8. Exploiting pragmatic markers in radio advertising in Ireland Joan O'Sullivan9. Sociopragmatic perspectives on Irish English discourse-pragmatic markers: An analysis of But in Dublin EnglishMarion Schulte10. Confrontational humour in a Dublin sports club: Flouting the conversational maxims of indirectnessFergus O'DwyerPart III – Irish English: Symbols, Landscapes and Perceptions11. Perceptual dialectology between varieties of Irish English: The Relationship between linguistic and political boundaries on the island of IrelandVicky Garnett & Stephen Lucek12. Brexit, borders and belonging in Northern Ireland: Exploring the linguistic landscape of the political border in IrelandDeirdre Dunlevy13. Indexing Irishness in linguistic landscaping: A touristic perception of the use of Irish language and Irish-style fontsPatricia Ronan14. Heritage, identity and language use in public spaces IrelandRaymond Hickey15. Irish English and World EnglishesJohn Kirk